Western Australian Botanic Garden

Kings Park and Botanic Garden celebrates the unique and diverse plant life of Western Australia and is part of the worldwide network of botanic gardens committed to plant conservation.

The original vision for Perth Park, later Kings Park, was of a European style garden with lawns, shady trees and flower beds. Recognition of the climatic differences and the low nutrient soil changed this vision. In 1965, the 17 hectare Western Australian Botanic Garden was opened; an everchanging, living research centre that focuses on the conservation of Western Australia's flora and displays some of the State's most diverse and spectacular plant groups.

Explore special areas of the Western Australian Botanic Garden with us as we celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2015. Look out for a new Anniversary Adventure each month.

Kings Park and Botanic Garden remains an important ceremonial and cultural place for the Indigenous people of Western Australia. There are many visitor services offered within the park to celebrate its Indigenous connection.

Kings Park and Botanic Garden is an important place of natural beauty and tranquillity, where people seek peace in its quiet places, share time and special events with family and friends or take the opportunity to reconnect with nature’s wonders.

In the Water Garden you do not need to exercise imagination to feel as if you are standing in the distant hills to the east - even though you are barely a stone's throw from Perth's central business district.

Shooting skywards, the branches of mottlecah (Eucalyptus macrocarpa) clad in hard silver leaves are your dramatic introduction to Roe Gardens. Other limbs range across the ground at strange angles with strong visual energy. The blossoms - red starbursts exploding from turban-shaped buds - are the biggest of any eucalypt.

Magnificent relics from the super-continent of Gondwana, banksias are uniquely Australian. Of the 76 species recorded nationally 62 are endemic to Western Australia, making this genus a justifiable source of local pride.

The Friends of Kings Park Native Plant Sales offer a rare chance to buy unusual native plants that are not often available from commercial nurseries, with all proceeds going towards worthwhile projects and research in Kings Park and Botanic Garden.